"IRL sunglasses block all the light emitted from screens" 😎 With more and more outdoor advertising becoming screen-based, these sound a bit like real-world ad blockers! Also kinda interesting to think about them on the opposite end of the scale to VR glasses (which block out real life) and in future being able to dial the real world up and down as we like... https://www.wired.com/story/irl-glasses-screen-blocking/

"Automated processes are often far less impressive than the puffery and propaganda surrounding them imply—and sometimes they are nowhere to be seen. Jobs may be eliminated and salaries slashed but people are often still laboring alongside or behind the machines, even if the work they perform has been deskilled or goes unpaid. "